The “New” Standard for Voluntary Departure–Stay in Jail AND Pay Your Own Ticket Home!

Kuck Baxter Immigration Blog

Matter of M-A-S, 24I&N Dec. 762 (BIA 2009), a new case was decided by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board”) on March 19, 2009, holds that, “[a]n Immigration Judge may order an alien detained until departure as a condition of a grant of voluntary departure”. In this case, the respondent was denied his claim for asylum and as a condition …